The ethical problems of outsourcingOutsourcing is just another example, like allowing illegal immigrants to receive driver's licenses, of putting economic and political interests ahead of doing the right thing.

MARIANNE MEANSLet's have a first lady debateThe competition for the role of first lady is a subtext of the presidential campaign. We don't vote for president's wives but they do influence the way we perceive their husbands.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER THE WASHINGTON POSTWhat Kerry's speech failed to sayNo bounce for Kerry. The Democrats and their pollsters will tell you this is because the electorate has already made up its mind. But if that is the case, why are they campaigning? Why have a convention in the first place? In reality, at least 10 percent of the population is undecided, and Kerry's convention appears to have gotten none of them.

ANDRES OPPENHEIMER THE MIAMI HERALDMexico's dinosaurs return to powerIf you thought that Mexican President Vicente Fox's 2000 election victory marked the end of the corruption-ridden authoritarian party that had ruled that country for seven decades, you may be wrong. Mexico's nationalist-leftist political dinosaurs are coming back, in a big way.